Francis of Assisi (1961)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman, Dolores Hart, Finlay Currie
Synopsis:
In the early twelfth century, the son of an Umbrian merchant gives up his ambitions of chivalric exploits to found a religious order based on the renunciation of possessions.
Review:
Solemn, ponderous hagiography with second-rank actors. It is hard to turn the poverty of Christ dispute into drama, and as in The Name of the Rose it is given one concessionary scene here. Elsewhere we are stuck with conventional conflicts in which characters sport secular/clerical garb, but it is strictly low order stuff, and the spiritual is smothered by the religiose.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman, Dolores Hart, Finlay Currie
Synopsis:
In the early twelfth century, the son of an Umbrian merchant gives up his ambitions of chivalric exploits to found a religious order based on the renunciation of possessions.
Review:
Solemn, ponderous hagiography with second-rank actors. It is hard to turn the poverty of Christ dispute into drama, and as in The Name of the Rose it is given one concessionary scene here. Elsewhere we are stuck with conventional conflicts in which characters sport secular/clerical garb, but it is strictly low order stuff, and the spiritual is smothered by the religiose.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 105m
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bradford Dillman, Stuart Whitman, Dolores Hart, Finlay Currie
Synopsis:
In the early twelfth century, the son of an Umbrian merchant gives up his ambitions of chivalric exploits to found a religious order based on the renunciation of possessions.
Review:
Solemn, ponderous hagiography with second-rank actors. It is hard to turn the poverty of Christ dispute into drama, and as in The Name of the Rose it is given one concessionary scene here. Elsewhere we are stuck with conventional conflicts in which characters sport secular/clerical garb, but it is strictly low order stuff, and the spiritual is smothered by the religiose.